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Daughters ask ‘Uncle Bush’: Please
save our dad
WSN Network
CHANDIGARH:
The
teenaged daughters of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner now on
death row in a Pakistani jail for alleged spying and
sabotage-related charges, have made an anguished appeal to US
President George W. Bush, seeking his help to save their father from
the gallows. Swapnadeep Kaur and her younger sister Poonam, who are
perhas aware of Washington’s enormous influence in Pakistan, have
given Mr Bush a detailed account of how their father became a victim
of mistaken identity over 18 years ago.
“Uncle
(President Bush), our father entered Pakistan territory in 1990 by
mistake in a drunken state and has not done anything to warrant
death,” the girls have written before describing how Sarabjit Singh
is being made to pay for the crimes of one Manjit Singh — the man
originally named as the culprit behind the twin bombings in Lahore
and Multan, in which 14 people were killed in 1990. “We have never
seen our father as we were too young when all this happened. Our
father was the sole breadwinner of the family, and has been falsely
implicated,” Swapnadeep and Poonam have written in their highly
emotional letter, which exhorts Mr Bush to view their plight as a
father and as an older person.
Both the girls,
their mother Sukhpreet Kaur and aunt Dalbir Kaur will be travelling
to Pakistan on Wednesday to meet Sarabjit Singh inside
Lahore’s
Kot Lakhpat Jail.
23 April 2008
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